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The New Mutants are a group of teenaged mutant superheroes-in-training published by Marvel Comics. They have been the main characters of three successive comic book series, which were spin-offs of the popular X-Men franchise.
The first team of New Mutants characters was created by Chris Claremont (long-time writer of Uncanny X-Men) and artist Bob McLeod. They first appeared in 1982's Marvel Graphic Novel #4 and were subsequently featured in their own title from 1983 until 1991. Also, like its parent title, The New Mutants highlighted interpersonal and group conflict as well as action and adventure, and featured a large ensemble cast. With the end of the first series, the characters were relaunched as X-Force in a new, eponymous series.
The second New Mutants series, launched in 2003, featured a new group of teenage mutants; but unlike the original New Mutants, they were only part of a huge cast of students at the Xavier Institute. At first, they were notable for their drive to become superheroes, but soon rival internal groups played a large role in the series. In 2004, it was relaunched as New X-Men: Academy X, after which the central group was formally dubbed the "New Mutants." In the aftermath of the "M-Day" crossover storyline in late 2005, the remaining students were merged into one junior team, the New X-Men.
The third New Mutants series, reuniting most of the original team, launched in May, 2009.
The New Mutants, vol. 1
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| File:Newmutants10383.jpg The New Mutants, vol. 1 #1. Art by Bob McLeod. Clockwise from top: Cannonball, Sunspot, Wolfsbane, Karma, Dani Moonstar, Professor X (blue in background). | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Marvel Graphic Novel #4 (1982) |
| Created by | Chris Claremont Bob McLeod |
| In-story information | |
| Base(s) | Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, Ship |
| Member(s) | Cannonball Danielle Moonstar Wolfsbane Sunspot Karma Sprite Magik Magma Cypher Warlock Bird-Brain Gosamyr Rictor Rusty Collins Skids Artie Maddicks Leech Shatterstar Caliban Catseye Boom-Boom Copycat Shatterstar Warpath Feral Cable Magneto Professor X |
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| See: List of New Mutants members | |
By the early 1980s, Uncanny X-Men (under the authorship of Chris Claremont) had become one of the comic book industry's most successful titles, prompting Marvel to launch The New Mutants, the first of several X-Men spin-offs.
The New Mutants were teenaged students of Professor Charles Xavier, much like the original X-Men, who had since grown into adulthood. These students, however, rather resembled the "All-New, All-Different X-Men" in terms of ethnic diversity. The original team consisted of:
- Karma (Xi'an Coy Manh), a 19-year-old Vietnamese girl and the team's original leader, who could mentally possess other people's bodies.
- Cannonball (Samuel Guthrie), a mild-mannered Kentuckian and eventual co-leader after Karma's "death," who became nigh-invulnerable when rocketing through the air.
- Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair), a Scot who could transform into a wolf-like creature.
- Psyche (Danielle Moonstar, also called Mirage and Moonstar), a Cheyenne and eventual co-leader after Karma's "death," who could create visual empathic three-dimensional illusions.
- Sunspot (Roberto da Costa), a Brazilian who gained superhuman strength fueled by sunlight and could store solar energy in his body to use his super strength during the night.
The team debuted in Marvel Graphic Novel #4 (1982), which continued a plotline from Uncanny X-Men. The group was formed by Professor X when he was under the control of the menacing alien race called the Brood. The youths were intended to be hosts for Brood embryos, but the X-Men returned and set matters straight. The five youngsters remained at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters to learn to control their powers.
The series was originally written by Claremont and illustrated by McLeod, the team's co-creators, but McLeod soon passed artistic duties on to Sal Buscema. Claremont gave the series an oddly dark tone, which was heightened with the arrival of artist Bill Sienkiewicz. In addition to very serious depictions of teenage angst and growing pains, the series featured themes of mysticism and psychic boundaries. The New Mutants also encountered a secret society called the Hellfire Club, and began a rivalry with their young apprentices, the Hellions.
The New Mutants initially had a semi-antagonistic relationship with the youngest X-Man, Kitty Pryde, sparked by Professor X's decision to "demote" Kitty to the junior team after its establishment. Though Kitty ultimately proved herself to Xavier and remained an X-Man, she held a grudge against the New Mutants nonetheless, dubbing them "X-Babies." The New Mutants, blameless in Xavier's decision and resenting Kitty's attitude, responded in kind. The animosity softened after the team attempted to rescue Kitty from the Hellfire Club's White Queen Emma Frost, and furthermore after Kitty's friends Illyana Rasputin and Doug Ramsey joined the team (see below).
After the apparent death of Karma, Cannonball and Dani Moonstar were appointed co-leaders. New recruits included:
- Magma (Amara Aquila/Alison Crestmere), a fiercely tempered native of a secret Roman society in the Amazon who could control lava.
- Magik (Illyana Rasputin), sister of the Russian X-Man Colossus and long-time resident of the X-Mansion, an accomplished mystic who could open "teleportation discs" allowing travel to Limbo and from there, any point on Earth.
- Warlock, an extraterrestrial of the techno-organic race known as the Technarchy.
- Cypher (Douglas Ramsey), an otherwise ordinary young man who could learn any language, spoken or written, at an exponential rate, whether it was human, alien, or machine, making him an unmatched computer expert.
In 1986, Professor X was written out of the series. Before he left, he made the X-Men's one-time nemesis, Magneto, headmaster of his school. Not trusted by his students, Magneto struggled in his new role and eventually joined the Hellfire Club.
In 1987, the series was turned over to writer Louise Simonson and illustrator Bret Blevins. Simonson's run was controversial,[citation needed] as Magma was written out of the book, Cypher was killed off, new characters Bird-Brain and Gosamyr were added to the team, and Magik was de-aged back to childhood. Simonson also folded the X-Terminators, a group of young wards from X-Factor, into the New Mutants.
The X-Terminators added to the team were:
- Rictor (Julio Richter), a young Mexican who could create shock waves.
- Rusty Collins, a pyrokinetic wanted by the U.S. government.
- Skids (Sally Blevins), a former Morlock who could project a force field around her body.
- Boom-Boom (Tabitha Smith), a teen runaway who could create "plasma bombs."
In 1989, Simonson crafted a saga in which the team journeyed to Asgard, the home of the gods of Norse mythology. The storyline wrote Dani Moonstar out of the series, as she joined the Norse pantheon as one of the Valkyrie.
Sales of the series had slumped for several years, but took a sharp upturn after Rob Liefeld took over the penciling and co-plotting chores at the end of 1989.[citation needed] A new mentor for the group, the mysterious mercenary Cable, was introduced, further helping sales. Over the next year, several longtime team members were written out or killed off. When Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza, who wrote dialogue based on Liefeld's plots, took over as writers of the final three issues of the series, they included several harder-edged characters:
- Domino, Cable's pale-skinned, black-garbed mercenary lover.
- Shatterstar, a swashbuckling warrior from another dimension.
- Warpath (James Proudstar), the younger brother of slain X-Man Thunderbird and a former Hellion, an Apache who possessed super strength and speed.
- Feral (Maria Callasantos), who possessed a bestial temperament and appearance.
The New Mutants was cancelled in 1991 with issue #100, but the new platoon-like team formed by Cable continued in X-Force, a successful series (whose first issue sold approximately one million copies)[citation needed] that would continue until 2002, and feature a variety of the former New Mutants cast.
Bibliography
- The New Mutants, vol. 1 #1–100 (March 1983–April 1991)
- The New Mutants Annual #1–7 (1984–1991)
- The New Mutants Special Edition #1 (1985)
- The New Mutants Summer Special #1 (1990)
- New Mutants: Truth or Death #1–3 (1997)
Collected editions
The New Mutants, vol. 1 has been reprinted in several trade paperbacks, some containing specific story arcs (such as the "Demon Bear Saga" by Claremont and Sienkiewicz), and some collected as part of a larger crossover of the various X-titles. Only in 2006, however, did a chronological reprinting of the series begin, with the commencement of The New Mutants Classic series of trade paperbacks.
| Title | Material collected | Publication date | ISBN |
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| New Mutants Classic, Volume 1 | The New Mutants, vol. 1 #1–7; Marvel Graphic Novel #4; Uncanny X-Men #167 | May 2006 | 0785121943 |
| New Mutants Classic, Volume 2 | The New Mutants, vol. 1 #8–17 | January 2007 | 0785121951 |
| New Mutants Classic, Volume 3 | The New Mutants, vol. 1 #18–25, Annual #1 | May 2008 | 0785131191 |
| New Mutants Classic, Volume 4 | The New Mutants, vol. 1 #26–34 | March 2009 | 0785137283 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: checksum |
| New Mutants Classic, Volume 5 | The New Mutants, vol. 1 #35–40; New Mutants Special Edition; Uncanny X-Men Annual #9 | March 2010 | 0785144609 |
| New Mutants: The Demon Bear Saga | The New Mutants, vol. 1 #18–21 | December 1990 | 0871356732 |
| X-Men: Mutant Massacre | The New Mutants, vol. 1 #46; Uncanny X-Men #210–213; X-Factor, vol. 1 #9–11; Thor #373–374; Power Pack #27 | October 2001 | 0785102248 |
| X-Men: Fall of the Mutants | The New Mutants, vol. 1 #59–61; Uncanny X-Men #225–227; X-Factor, vol. 1 #24–26 | February 2002 | 0785108254 |
| X-Men: Inferno | The New Mutants, vol. 1 #71–73; Uncanny X-Men #239–243; X-Factor, vol. 1 #36–39 | December 1996 | 0785102221 |
| Cable and the New Mutants | The New Mutants, vol. 1 #87–91, #93–94, and the last page of #86 | May 1995 | 0871359375 |
| Cable Classic, Volume 1 | The New Mutants, vol. 1 #87; Cable: Blood and Metal #1–2; Cable, vol. 1 #1–4 | March 2008 | 078513123X |
| X-Men: X-Tinction Agenda | The New Mutants, vol. 1 #95–97; Uncanny X-Men #270–272; X-Factor, vol. 1 #60–62 | November 1991 | 0871359227 |
| Deadpool Classic, Volume 1 | The New Mutants, vol. 1 #98; Deadpool, vol. 1 ("The Circle Chase") #1–4; Deadpool, vol. 2 ("Sins of the Past") #1–4; Deadpool, vol. 3 #1 | May 2008 | 0785131248 |
| X-Force: Shatterstar | The New Mutants, vol. 1 #99–100; X-Force: Shatterstar #1–4 | August 2005 | 0785116338 |
The New Mutants, vol. 2
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 The New Mutants from New X-Men: Academy X #2. Art by Randy Green. From left to right: Danielle Moonstar, Surge, Prodigy, Wind Dancer, Elixir, Wallflower. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | New X-Men: Academy X #2 (August 2004) |
| Created by | Nunzio DeFilippis Christina Weir Keron Grant Randy Green |
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| Base(s) | Xavier Institute for Higher Learning |
| Member(s) | Danielle Moonstar (advisor) Wind Dancer Prodigy Surge Wallflower Elixir Icarus Wither |
The second incarnation of the New Mutants debuted in 2003 with an ongoing series of the same name, written by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir. The series featured a handful of the dozens of mutant teenagers attending the Xavier Institute, as well as their instructors, which included various X-Men as well as former members of the original New Mutants (Dani Moonstar, Karma, Wolfsbane and Magma).
The featured group of students were only formally dubbed the "New Mutants" with the series relaunch as New X-Men: Academy X in 2004, and the reorganization of the Xavier Institute student body into various training squads. The New Mutants, advised by Dani Moonstar, were:
- Prodigy (David Alleyne), the team's co-leader, who can utilize the skills and knowledge (but not powers) of those near him.
- Wind Dancer (Sofia Mantega), the other co-leader, who can create winds, fly via said winds, and eavesdrop over distances by conducting air vibrations.
- Wallflower (Laurie Collins), a shy girl who generates pheromones that usually cause people near her to match her moods, although she has learned to control this.
- Elixir (Josh Foley), who can heal himself and others as well as inflict damage.
- Surge (Noriko Ashida), who absorbs electricity which she can release as blasts, or use for super-speed, but requires mechanical gauntlets to prevent overcharge.
- Icarus (Joshua "Jay" Guthrie), who flies on red, angel-like wings, heals rapidly, and possesses a very beautiful singing voice.
Another such group, advised by Emma Frost, were known as the "Hellions" and, like their predecessors, were the arch-rivals of the New Mutants.
After M-Day, the cataclysmic event that decimated the world's mutant population, only 27 of the 182 students enrolled at the Xavier Institute retained their powers. The New Mutants and the other training squads were disbanded, and the remaining students were folded into a single junior team, the New X-Men.
Bibliography
- The New Mutants, vol. 2 #1–13 (July 2003–June 2004)
- New X-Men: Academy X #1–19 (2004–2005)
Collected editions
| Title | Material collected | Publication date | ISBN |
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| New Mutants: Back to School | New Mutants, vol. 2 #1–6 | March 2005 | 0785112421 |
New Mutants, vol. 3
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_1_cover.jpg) Variant cover to New Mutants, vol. 3 #1. Art by Bob McLeod. | |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | New Mutants #1 (2009) |
| Created by | Zeb Wells (writer) Diogenes Neves (artist) |
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| Base(s) | Utopia |
| Member(s) | Cannonball Danielle Moonstar Sunspot Karma Magik Magma Warlock Cypher |
In May 2009, a third volume of New Mutants was launched. The series is written by Zeb Wells and pencilled by Diogenes Neves with many original characters returning to form a new field team for the X-Men. The team is a reunion of sorts for the original cast from the first volume and consists of Cannonball, Dani Moonstar, Magma, Sunspot, Karma, and Magik, and spun from events from the limited series X-Infernus.
The Return of Legion
The series opens with Shan and Dani investigating the possible case of a mutant in Westcliffe Colorado. Shan meets a little girl and they are both in trouble as an axe comes through a door behind them while a hand turns the doorknob. Meanwhile at the X-Men's new HQ Magik returns, battle scarred, from the future and is met with hostility by the mutants that she dealt with in Limbo during the Quest For Magik storyline. Cannonball and Sunspot step in to defend her while Magik subsequently faints muttering "They'll be almost dead by now." In the X-Brig Magma brings soup to the recently blinded Empath of the Hellions. They begin to talk when Sam calls Amara to the Med Bay due to the return of Illyana. Beast checks her out while the remaining former New Mutants discuss whether or not it is her due to her acting strange. Roberto then explains that both Beast and Cerebra say she is the real Illyana. Sam requests to create a new team consisting of himself Amara, Roberto and Illyana to find Dani and Shan as Magik believes they are in trouble. They get their uniforms and a jet a begin to travel to Westcliffe. Magik's strange behaviour continues when she tells Amara that she knows Shan and Dani are in trouble because a year later Amara told her and blamed her for not being here to help which was the reason Magik travelled back. Magik also questions whether Amara still loves Empath and even offers to reverse the blinding done to him by Pixie. She then believes that Amara prefers Empath to be helpless and offers to reverse it and keep it their secret. Upon arriving in Westcliffe Magik sees a picture of the girl Shan was with earlier on a missing poster. This has a bad effect on Magik as she likens it to when she was abducted by the demon Belasco. Magik and Amara go to speak with the girl's parents while Sam and Roberto go to a bar. They are met with a less than warm welcome and eventually get in a fight. They then find Shan tied to a chair in the back room of the bar looking catatonic. Meanwhile Magik and Amara go to the house of the parents of the girl, Marci. There Magik figures out clues the future Amara had given her and they know they're in the right place. They are met with resistance by the parents but eventually get to the basement where Marci is being kept. In the basement is a large box. Magik and Amara hear Shan's voice from the box which they report back to Sam who doesn't understand as he was looking at Shan tied to the chair. Amara and Magik open the box and out walks David Haller the mutant known as Legion.(Issue 1)
It is revealed that Shan and Marci are trapped in Haller's mind. They are chased by his many personalities through the mindscape. Roberto approaches Shan in the back room of the bar and is nearly sucked into Haller's mind until Sam punches him away. Shan hides Marci in an attic and is attacked and captured by the personalities. Marci takes control of Legion's body and communicates with her parents who try to protect her from Amara and Magik. While her parents argue about whether or not her father called the X-Men Marci is set upon by the personalities. One personality takes the doll, which dictates who is in control of Legion's body, with what seems to be superstrength and punches Amara. Another takes the doll and uses an energy discharge to blast Magik through the roof of the house. Marci's mother still thinks that she is Legion. Marci's father knows otherwise and tries to stop her going to Legion. Another personality takes hold and punches through both of Marci's parents. Her father subsequently reveals he did call the X-Men to his dying wife. Magma and Amara recover while Legion flies to find Dani because she is a Fixer, someone who helped fix David's mind previously. Sam interrogates the bar tender and learns that Dani is in the local jail. They are subsequently found by the police outside the bar. Sam picks up Roberto and blasts by them. Legion then enters the jail and kills the officer on duty. Legion threatens Dani saying they have many ways to kill her to which she replies that she has a few herself from behind the jail cell bars.(Issue 2)
The personality known as Jack Wayne speaks with Dani and tells her that more personalities have emerged and insults her lose of powers. He even goes so far as to toy with the idea of raping Dani. Until Roberto and Sam blast through the wall of the prison, kicking Legion through a wall. A quick exchange between Dani and Sam occurs ending in Sam leaving Dani in the jail cell for her own protection angering her greatly. The doll is handed to a new personality named Sally whose powers seem to allow Legion's body turning incredibly muscled. Legion suddenly shouts, "Nobody loves me," causing Bobby to pause and nearly get injured until Sam blasts onto the scene and punches Legion. Yet another personality, Hugh Davidson, takes over who has a prehensile tongue. He begins choking Bobby until Sam again saves him. A "good" personality takes over and distracts Sam and Bobby while another Legion forms in Dani's cell and tries to kill her. The one in control is actually sad to do this and even apologises as it prepares to kill Dani. This newly formed other Legion has its head melted by Magma as she and Magik arrive to save Dani. Sam and Bobby then blast through the cell doors and didn't realise the other two had arrived. After Sam powers down Dani punches him after he apologises for leaving her there. She then walks out saying she is going "To make myself useful." As she is gone there is a quick sit-rep among the team ending in Magik leaving to go to the bar where Karma's body is. Sam worries about Legion coming after Dani again just before she returns armed with guns saying that they need to chase Legion. Illyana is warned not to kill any of David's personalities as she touches Karma's body and is dragged into Legion's mind. She arrives and takes out the Soulsword and demands to see Shan. Jack Wayne taunts her saying she won't kill any of them because she was told not to. Magik then proceeds to kill 3 personalities including Jack Wayne. (Issue 3)
The main team get ready to fight Legion and Dani is told to leave by Sam. They get into an argument where Sam calls Dani's lack of power into the argument. Dani gets into a van and drives off. Due to the powers of one of the personalities Legion sees Dani driving away. In the mindscape Magik again demands to be brought to Shan. One personality attempts to attack her as they "are many." Magik kills him and says "You are many. I have many ways to kill you." The other personalities then become more helpful. In the real world Legion attacks the team with super-speed and uses scrp metal to cut Roberto across the stomach. Magma then traps him with lava. In the mindscape Magik fins Shan protecting Marci in a pseudo jail. Marci then leads them to where the real David Haller personality is. A new personality takes over causing Magma's powers to shut down. Sam then punches him through a wall. Karma and Magik find David in another one of the cells. He is sad to find out that he has been bad again. Marci then tells David that the bad men took her doll Moira, this is a reference to the fact that he was in the care of Moira McTaggert before. Magik exits the cell and demands the doll. The doll passes into the possession of someone who can turn off Sam's powers causing him to hit into a car and get knocked out. The doll is handed to a personality who can heal Legion's body as it has been injured. Legion's body becomes that of a werewolf which goes to bite Sam before Dani drives the van she drove off in into him. He survives and s brief fight ensues until Illyana takes the doll and thusly control of Legion's body. Later the X-Men arrive where Emma Frost puts the people of Westcliffe under the impression that they were all sick with the flu for the past 2 days. Madison Jeffries then puts a helmet on Legion in order to keep the peace inside his head. Sam thanks Dani for saving him but she walks away without saying a word. Sam then has a conversation with Scott Summers about being a leader. (Issue 4)
The next issue deals with the aftermath of the case in Westcliffe, Utopia and the return of Warlock. H.A.M.M.E.R agents fire two missiles on Warlock but they don't explode because after Warlock has touched them they are given sentience and they don't want to blow up. We then cut to Utopia where Dani is brushing Brightwind the horse she uses when she has her Valkyrie powers she received from Hela during the Utopia storyline in order to defeat Ares. Cyclops then offers her a teaching job revealing that Sam hasn't put her on his team. The rest of the team are then being debriefed by Kavita Rao in relation to the Westcliffe mission. Shan worries about Marci being trapped in Haller's mind with all the others. We then see the inside of Haller's mind now with all the different personalities being separately boxed by the X-Club and Rogue. Roberto then tries to hit on Rogue while the X-Club explains whats being done and how Legion got so many new powers and personalities. Roberto, Amara and Sam leave the lab and pass the danger room as they leave. The doors to the danger room slowly open to reveal Dani who promptly shouts "Guthrie!" Shan explains to Dr. Rao how they got out of Haller's mind and revealed that the only way someone could become part of Haller's mind was either through Shan's powers or if Legion is next to the person when they die. We then cut to Sam and Dani in the danger room while Sam wants to talk Dani wants to spar. She punches him in the face and they begin to argue about why she isn't on the team where she asks Sam what he would do if someone told him he couldn't die for one of the team. Sam replies with "I'd punch them in the face." The two spar briefly and leave the danger room to get some beers. In Shan's interview we find out that someone else was in control of Legion when Marci died. It is implied that he abused her in some way as when Shan looked at him she knew what he had done as though she had done it and she wanted the memory gone. She then took the Soulsword and proceeded to kill the personality. It is then revealed Magik told Rao that she killed the personality taking the blame for Shan. Finally we see Warlock in the ruins of the Xavier Institute where he finds a picture or himself and his friends among the wreckage. He then sees Cypher's grave is empty. (Issue 5).
Necrosha
The next arc opens with Professor Charles Xavier asking Danger if he can see his son, Legion. He ponders if he only has bad effects on his students. The New Mutants then join him. He is over joyed to see his young students all grown up and they are happy see him. Outside the recently resurrected Cypher watches the exchange showing his powers to have evolved as now he can read body language and figures out what people are really saying. He is able to find out insecurities and such through this. He is then contacted by Warlock but Selene's objectives override Warlock. His mission is to take out Magma and does so by hiding in her room. He tells her that "They brought me back" and points behind her. Amara looks and Doug knocks her out. He then pulls Amara into the kitchen where the rest of the New Mutants are with a message from Selene. They are all shocked to see him again after so long and attack him after realising Magma has been badly wounded. Using his translation powers he easily dodges and counter attack Roberto, Sam and Magik. Karma then attempts to possess him but it fails. Dani attacks him but she gets beaten. Roberto and Sam try again but again are defeated when Doug throws Roberto into the oncoming Sam. Karma then out thinks Doug and uses all the other New Mutants to attack him. Since there is not method to their movements he is unable to translate it and ends up punched out a window and into the water. The team worry about Amara and realise something is going down all over Utopia. They are quickly silenced as Warlock appears having saved Doug and Sam who had flown out the window under Karma's control. He attempts to fix Doug as he is infected with malicious code. He is then attacked and decapitated by Doug.(Issue 6)
Doug throws Warlock's head off Utopia but is attacked by the code Warlock introduced and is freed from Selene's control. As the new virus takes hold the Devil appears. It is then revealed that it is the enemy team of the New Mutants, the Hellions. As Jetstream goes to enter the room Dani thows a knife and closes the door. The door then slices Jetstream in half. Cypher is still dealing with Warlock's code battling the other code that revived him. Tarot's devil reappears and Magik slices it in half with her Soulsword. Jetstream is revealed to still be alive and attacks Doug. The rest of the Hellions appear and try to take Doug away as he screams a plea for help to Sam who is about to teleport away on one of Magik's teleport disks. They then find themselves on a partially destroyed Utopia with the X-Men fighting newly resurrected foes. Karma then tells the others that she thinks that it is the real Doug and expresses anxiety at having left him behind. Colossus is punched towards the team where a funny little exchange between Illyana and Piotr occurs when he warns her about the dead walking as she replies with "We are not ones to talk." Roberto then assists Colossus in defeating their resurrected enemy. Roberto is still worried about Amara while Sam decides to save Doug because "The Hellions want him. That means I want him more." We then cut to Doug being re-infected with Selene's virus. Then we see a small fish turn to yellow energy near Warlock's head signalling that he isn't out for the count. (Issue 7)
Warlock continues killing sea creatures in order to heal himself, while Bobby runs Amara to the Infirmary. Dani is with them but they are set upon by Feral. Doug is being made evil again by the Hellions when Karma attempts to take control of them. This leads to Roulette admitting she thought that she loved Doug at some point. Sam, Amara and Ilyana are then seen. Feral jumps on Dani and she stabs Feral. Feral then goes for Amara but Roberto rips her arm off. Dani then throws the arm out the window and Feral jumps after it. The Hellions and the New Mutants then begin to fight to save Doug. All of Tarot's cards are defeated by Illyana's Soulsword. She is then knocked off the platform they are fighting on while Karma and Sam try to fight off the rest as Doug remains dealing with the two TO strains in his system. Magik then finds Warlock and purges him of the malicious code. Dr. Nemesis then saves Amara in the infirmary. The Hellions prepare to kill Doug but Warlock returns looking emaciated. He cannot defeat the Hellions so he calls the two missiles he gave life to. They prepare to explode as Warlock grabs Doug and jumps through a teleportation disk.They then explode and kill the Hellions. He then uses Magik's Soulsword to purge Doug of the TO virus completely. (Issue 8)
Prelude to Fall of the New Mutants
The issue opens with a scientist dealing being told someone is returning from "hell." A group of soldiers then return many of which are scarred and one has a semmingly demonic hand. We then open on Utopia with Warlock and Cypher being checked for the TO virus by Maddison Jeffries, Dr. Nemesis, Danger, Cyclops and Emma Frost. Danger starts to come on to Warlock where it is also referenced that Jeffries has feelings for Danger. Warlock then refers to Illyana as Magik 2.0 and Cypher tells Nemesis that he is free of the virus because he "hacked" it or in Cypher's opinion he asked it to. With the danger room destroyed during Necrosha Bobby is fighting a demon from Limbo that Illyana had teleported in. Eventually Bobby gets caught and Illyana teleports it out. Shan and Dani appear and ask Bobby to go with them to visit Amara who was still healing from the events of Necrosha while Dani tells Illyana that Emma wants to talk to her. Amara is in a huge vat of lava healing and talking to Sam where they reference that Bobby has feelings for her. Doug comes in to talk to Amara but Bobby follows in and throws him against the wall. Doug is then told to fuck off by Bobby after Amara tells him to leave. Emma is then interviewing Illyana where it is revealed that she is Illyana in body and mind but doesn't have her soul. The Inferno event is referenced and Illyana reveals that going back in time to save Illyana from being corrupted by Belasco caused her to cease to exist. She is then returned to life by Belasco but then sent away for not being the real Illyana. She then references that Legion would have killed everyone except Emma who would kill him if she didn't intervene. Cut to Doug and Amara who wants him to leave. She says Doug isn't like he was before but then he explains that he is more powerful now. He then says something to a hesitant Amara in a language just for her. She then hugs Doug and welcomes him back. Illyana reveals that she travelled back in time to train them to deal with a threat from limbo that will return the Elder Gods from exile. It is then revealed the threat is the soldiers from earlier and are after the New Mutants. (Issue 9)
International Incident
The New Mutants are sent to Japan to take out a boat of Savage Land mutates who are trying to get to Utopia to go to Magneto in the hopes of overthrowing humanity with him as leader. Doug, Warlock and Sunspot leave the plane and attack the boat while Cannonball attacks Sauron who he has a history with. Emma continues to worry about the team and whether or not it's dangerous to have them. Karma cannot take over the mutates minds. It is then revealed that Cyclops is looking for a leader from watching the New Mutants fight from Utopia. The assault team are in trouble until Sam comes as back up. Sam gets slime on his face and attacks Roberto. It is then revealed that a mutate below deck is keeping Shan out. They then reveal that Magneto is on the X-Men. The mutates say they will go home if the X-Men will sort this out with the Japanese government. Emma then says Sam isn't the best leader as he had been incapacitated. Cyclops then reveals that he never said it had to be Sam.
Siege Tie-in
The New Mutants are in Las Vegas so Dani can pay off the favour she received from Hela during the Utopia crossover. Dani goes to Hela while the others go gambling. Hela then has Dani go to Asgard during Siege to be her Valkyrie and bring the dead of the immortals to her. Dani asks her what if she says no and Hela says she will revoke the gift and wouldn't have defeated Ares during Utopia. Dani is told not to get involved in the siege and to just get the ghosts of the dead out of there. Dani doesn't listen and helps the fight. In doing this she leaves the dead immortals at the hands of the Disir. These were previous Valkyries who had been cursed for feasting on dead immortals. While Dani is fighting in the Siege she cannot draw her sword but as the Disir begin to feast on the dead she returns and realises the sword is only to protect the dead from the Disir. Dani kills two of the Disir and the rest leave. She then leads the dead away from the fight while Tyr who was among the dead returns to his body as he isn't dead even though he thinks he should be. Dani returns to Hela and is furious with Hela and it is revealed Hela didn't want it to happen. Dani leaves and chooses not to join her friends as she feels she isn't very lucky.
Second Coming
During the crossover Illyana is sent to Limbo early on and is saved in the Hellbound tie-in by a team lead by Sam which featured no other New Mutants. Before this Sam and the other New Mutants fought against The Right and Cameron Hodge. During this Shan gets injured resulting in her leg being amputated and Warlock has to break his vow of not killing in order to save the team. Doug also gets information about Bastions towers. Later after Hope gets onto Utopia she and Dani get in a fight after Dani confronts Cable. Later X-Force Cable and Cypher go into the future to destroy the mastermold. Cypher melds with the mastermold system and overtakes it. As a result all the Nimrods are deactivated. Those not injured also took part in the war against the Nimrod army in the area under the red dome. (issues 12 to 14)
Fall of the New Mutants
This arc runs for 5 issues and deals with the limbo soldiers that appeared earlier in the series looking for Illyana.
The issue opens on a meeting between two of the soldiers from a previous issue as well as several government types. An argument insues over the importance of some unknown children and the taking into custody of Illyana. The guy in charge of the soldiers is revealed to be General Ulysses. He also reveals that he and his men survived 20 years in Limbo on 6 months of supplies and that the children are dead seemingly due to an attack on the base where the were being kept. An argument insues between the general and one of the government types that results in a soldier with a demonic arm named Doc Noc attacking the government man with the arm against his will. The General is threatened with being code blacked if his team attacks Illyanna. Sam is then shown on Utopia talking with Cyclops having lost his confidence in his leading. As a result his team is sent on a vacation. Shan is shown in the infirmary with a new bionic leg talking to Hellion who lost both his hands during Second Coming Amara and Bobby then tell her that they are going on a vacation. Doug is watching Warlock purge the lifeglow he absorbed from the fight against Cameron Hodge outside where Dani tells them about goin on vacation. Illyana is seen talking to Pixie who is also going on a vacation about needing her help soon. The team head to a ranch while General Uylsses moves his forces out. Sam stresses the importance of talking about their feelings about what happened with very little response until he mentions he brought lots of beer which prompts Dani to ask the others to hear him out. There are several little scenes between the characters including Cypher mentioning that Warlock doesn't like watching them eat because of what happened against Hodge. Another was between Bobby and Amara further hinting to a relationship and finally one of Sam and Dani kissing with no explanation as to how they got to that point. Illyana then feels something happening. The soldiers then reach their destination and attack their target which is revealed to be Pixie who they defeat, tie up and then steal her souldagger.(issue 15)
The man who was attacked in the previous issue by Doc Noc is revealed to be General Combest. It is revealed that after the Inferno crossover that Ulysses was given his job by Combest to deal with the mutant problem. Combest also reveals they gathered a group of mutant weapons. These were the children he mentioned in the last issue. The children are revealed to be the babies used to open the portal during Inferno. The government secured the babies and Combest hoped that Doc Noc would be able to weaponize them to use them against the other mutants. They also reverse engineered the portal, built a new one and used the babies flesh to open it. We then skip to when the limbo base called the Hatchery is in place. Some new recruits are being told about the place and were told to turn in all religious icons. One soldier didn't and is attacked by one of the many demons surrounding the base and taken away. We then see Doc Noc working on transplanting demon body parts. He is also shown torturing the children in the hopes of casuing their powers to appear. Later a team find an amulet with the bloodstones that held Illyana and Pixie's soul was found in the hand of a blonde corpse. It is taken back to the base to be examined by Doc Noc. Shortly thereafter Witchfire the daughter of Belasco appears and demands the return of the amulet as it is part of her inheritance. She then attacks the base with a demon army. Doc Noc loses his arm when a demon attacks him while holding the amulet. He then reports that the children are dead. Combest blocks off all of the portals except one that needs special technology to find which causes the feud between he and Ulysses for losing the weapons. We return to the present where Ulysses is on a helicopter with his team and Pixie. He gets off the helicopter and is shouted at by Combest. Combest then says he should have court martialled Ulysses for losing the weapons. Ulysses says they don't like to be called weapons and Combest is killed by something unseen until just after it is revealed the children are alive and all grown up. (issue 16)
Bibliography
- New Mutants, vol. 3 #1–current
Collected editions
| Title | Material collected | Publication date | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mutants: Return of the Legion | New Mutants, vol. 3 #1–5 | December 2009 | 0785139923 |
| New Mutants: Necrosha | New Mutants, vol. 3 #6–11 | May 2010 | 0785139935 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: checksum |
Other versions
Rahne of Terra
The graphic novel Rahne of Terra, by Peter David, is set in a heroic fantasy universe in which Wolfsbane's counterpart is Princess Rain of Geshem. Members of the royal household include her lady-in-waiting Tabby (Boom-Boom), the knights Robert (Sunspot), Samuel (Cannonball) and Richard (Riktor), and her Prince Consort, Douglas (Cypher). None of them have the powers of their counterparts, although the knights have magical items that duplicate their effects.
New Mutants: Truth or Death
In 1997, a three-issue reunion series written by Ben Raab and illustrated by Bernard Chang, New Mutants: Truth or Death, featured the young New Mutants traveling forward in time to meet their older, jaded selves in X-Force.
It is in this issue where you learn how Illyana contracts the Legacy Virus!
Ultimate X-Men
In Ultimate X-Men, the Academy of Tomorrow (previously called New Mutants) is founded by Emma Frost. They are loosely linked to the X-Men via Emma Frost's professional relationship with her former lover and teacher Charles Xavier. This Academy accepts any talented students, regardless of their genetic status.
The team is headed by a non-telepathic and more pacifistic version of Emma Frost and headed by field leader Havok. Members include Havok's girlfriend Polaris, Cannonball, Cypher (a human genius), Northstar (the current boyfriend of this universe's Colossus), Sunspot and Shinobi Shaw (Emma Frost's current boyfriend and secretly part of the Hellfire Club). Former members include Karma, Angel, Colossus, and Beast.
In other media
- The animated TV series X-Men: Evolution (2000–2003) featured a group called the New Mutants who, like their comic book counterparts, were a junior team living at the Xavier Institute concurrently with the X-Men. The team featured Wolfsbane, Cannonball, Magma, Boom-Boom and Sunspot. Other members, such as Iceman, Jubilee, Berzerker and Multiple Man were not New Mutants in the comic book series, but were featured in other X-Men comics. Conversely the character of Doug Ramsey was mentioned in the series bible[citation needed] as a friend of Kitty Pryde, but was never seen on screen either as Doug or Cypher.
- New Mutants is the name given to the 'race' of Mutants on the television show Mutant X.
References
External links
- MDP: New Mutants at the Marvel Database Project
- X-Men Diaries article on the original Hellions and New Mutants
- The Demon Bear Saga
- X-Men comics at Marvel.com
